Before the house of God - that is, in front of the temple, praying toward it (1 Kings 8:30, 1 Kings 8:35; [Reference…

The covenant of repentance and amendment. Here the narrative assumes another form; and, in accordance with the solemnity of a great public transact…

Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping ,
&c.] Had confessed the sins of the people in prayer a…

Shechaniah acknowledged the national guilt. The case is sad, but it is not desperate; the disease is threatening, but not incurable. Now that the p…